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(No Model.)

W. M. MARSHALL. MAT.

Patented Sept. 20, 1892. 7, J. A

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THREE-FOURTHS TO SAMUEL W SHREEVE, OF SAME PLACE.

(DUNN, HARRY L. DUNN, AND JOHN MAT.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,980, dated September 20, 1892,

Application filed July 11, 1891. Serial No. 399,218. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat 1, WILLIAM M.MARSHALL, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Door, Car, or other Mats, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a door, car, or other mat formed of strips of metal or wood, with an intervening filling or layer of rope, substantially as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 represents a partial sectional and partial top view of a portion of a mat embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a top view of several contiguous sections. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of a portion of the mat, showing thewire clamp for connee-tin g the parts. Fig. 4 represents a top view of a modification. Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of a portion of the modification shown in Fig. 4.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a mat formed of strips of rope B and rigid strips 0 of either wood or metal. Each of the strips 0 is formed of a piece of material folded upon itself, forming a loop, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and serpentine in form,hav ing the contiguous parts connected by the wire clamps D, the, ends of which pass through openings in said strips O and are socured together by twisting them, as shown, or in any other suitable manner. Around each of the strips 0 is wound a rope B, so that its upper edge is substantially flush with the top of the strip, thus serving as a cleaner, while the strip acts as a scraper. The strips C, which, with their surrounding coils or rings of rope, form sections of a mat, are placed side by side, as shown in Fig. 2, and are connected at their nearest or contiguous points intermediate of their ends by clamps D, similar in character to the wire clamps D.

In the modification shown in Figs. A and 5 the rope is coiled in serpentine folds and held between the strips C, which are substantially straight.

It will be noticed that owing to the open character of the mat the dust and dirt are easily dislodged from the same, while at the same time it efficiently serves as a means for removing the dirt from the feet by being both a scraper and cleaner. The strips 0 prevent the too rapid wearing out of the rope, as well as imparting a rigidness to the mat.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' 1. A mat formed of sections, each section consisting of a loop of rigid material having surrounding rings of rope, and clamps connecting said sections, substantially as described.

2. A mat formed of sections, each of which is composed of a loop of rigid material having surrounding rings of rope extending to the outer edges thereof, and fastenings for said sections, said parts being combined substantially as described.

3. A mat formed of sections, each of which consists of afolded strip of rigid material of serpentine form and a surrounding ring or coil of rope, the opposite sides of each section being connected at points intermediate of its ends, substantially as described.

Philadelphia, July 6, 1891.

v WILLIAM M. MARSHALL.

Witnesses:

JOHN SHREEVE,

N. M. PoLLooK. 

